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When you live in town you do not expect to have many wildlife visitors. However, in addition to the expected dogs and cats, local raccoons, gophers, squirrels, birds, possums, armadillos, geckos, frogs, camelians, and even a rooster, turtle, and a snake love my office. It seems they all like my cat's food. Below are a couple of photos of my most recent visitor.
The raccoon is by far the most intelligent. He or she has learned how to open the container the cat food is in and to even pour water from the cat's water bottle into the water bowl. Occasionally the coon will be accompanied by three or four baby coons. The possum and the armadillo are the dumbest. While the others run away, when I approach the them, they just rolls over and curl up and play dead. The rooster was the most unwelcome. He crapped on both my keyboard and my network hub and ruined them. The others have been welcome guests. I don't know what kind of snake it was that visited and I couldn't get a photo of it, but it was about 5' long and a gorgeous bright - almost flourscent - green color.
My son-in-law is an avid deer hunter, but this season he batted zero in both Texas and Alabama. My bride, Libby, got one up on him this season. One evening in January Lib bagged a huge doe with her Buick. It cost us more than Greg's leases cost him - just under $2,000. Unfortunately she had to leave it on the side of the road. It was out of season plus she did not have a hunting license. It would have provided some great steaks and deer sausage. I think I would have thrown it in the back of my truck had it been me.
There is a little undeveloped acreage behind our home and neighbors tell me that we have at least one deer living there. I have not seen it, so I will have to take their word for it. Our back yard is a bird-watcher's paradise. I have seen many varieties, including hawks, beautiful woodpeckers, and one time years ago a parrot that must have escaped from some neighbor's home. Shortly after we moved here i 1980 we saw some kind of a wild cat. It was about the size of a German Shepherd dog. I saw it a couple of times and then it disappeared.
I had a picture of the turtle, but cannot locate it. It has been around the neighborhood for years because many years ago I marked it after my baby daughter found it in the yard. The same one visited my office once - much larger than when I originally engraved the mark in his shell. My baby daughter is now married and has presented us with two granddaughters, so the box turtle has been around here at least 20 years.
Below are some pix of the coon and rooster.
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This was the unwelcome chicken. He paid regular visits until he did his thing on my keyboard and network router. I then locked him in the office and called animal control to come pick him up. Hopefully he is on an East Texas farm somewhere now. |